by Kenneth Woods | May 26, 2014 | Bobby and Hans, Headlines, News and Reviews
A review from critic Rainer Aschemaier for Bobby and Hans volume 4. Read the whole thing here. “Woods’ Schumann is a revelation: transparent, graceful, melancholy, romantic At the beginning of this month we were blessed to hear an almost vexingly...
by Kenneth Woods | May 19, 2014 | Bobby and Hans, Headlines, News and Reviews
A review from the June 2014 issue of Gramophone Magazine by Guy Rickards. “This account is a joy from start to exuberant finish, perfectly paced and superbly played…Very strongly...
by Kenneth Woods | May 5, 2014 | A view from the podium
It was the most unexpected gift I received this past Christmas- both the nature of the gift and the identity of the givers. Why the nature? Anyone who knows me well, knows how deeply immersed I was in the music of Jimi Hendrix throughout my teens and early twenties,...
by Kenneth Woods | May 4, 2014 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Gál: Symphony No.2 in F Op.53 ‘The personal experience which is always expressed in music is very deeply buried in one’s own consciousness. One doesn’t know. One never knows.’ Hans Gál Hans Gál was born in 1890 just outside Vienna, where he studied with Richard Robert...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 30, 2014 | Explore the Score
‘This traumatic experience…was linked to his First Symphony… This symphony thus spans the years of his ripening, the summer of his life… At that time he developed a stoicism, an ability to suppress his feelings and to tame the chaos within him, just as he mastered the...
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